Abram Choate, SID
BROWNWOOD, Texas – The Howard Payne softball team late innings rallies come up short as they drop two games to the Hardin-Simmons Cowgirls 4-3 and 6-4 on Friday at Jacket Field.
In game one, HSU struck first scoring one run in the top of the third. Howard Payne answered in the fifth when Kate McLaughlin scored on an error by the Cowgirls third baseman and then Candra McKee's single to left field scored Brooke Schneider to give the Lady Jackets a 2-1 lead.
Two HPU errors in the next inning allowed HSU to score 3 and bring the score to 4-2. HPU added another run in the next inning to make the score 4-3 on a HSU pass ball scoring HPU's LaBlue, but that was as close as the Lady Jacket would get.
Howard Payne's Tiffany Wolfe got the loss in the contest, while HSU Arin Spence picked up the win.
Game two HSU jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first. The Lady Jackets then held the Cowgirls scoreless till the sixth when HSU posted two more scores. HPU then answered back in the bottom of the inning with Tammy Hart's double scoring Lauren Vesely.
HSU added two more in the seventh; HPU did not give up, scoring three runs in the bottom of the inning with two outs. HPU fell by a score of 6-4.
HPU's Jill McLaughlin got the loss and HSU's Arin Spence picked up the win.
